Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

Informationen zum Autor " Elizabeth Kneebone is a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Alan Berube is a senior fellow and deputy director at the Metropolitan Policy Program." Klappentext Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem, but increasingly a suburban one as well. In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the US and more than half of the metropolitan poor. Zusammenfassung Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem! but increasingly a suburban one as well. In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America! Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the US and more than half of the metropolitan poor.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Berube, Alan Kneebone Berube, Berube Alan, Elizabeth Kneebone, Elizabeth Berube Kneebone, Kneebone Elizabeth
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.2014
• EAN: 9780815725800
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-2580-0
• No. of pages: 169
• Series: James A. Johnson Metro Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Poverty & unemployment, Welfare economics, United States of America, USA, Urban communities, Poverty and precarity, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems